Lyman Tower Sargent (born 9 February 1940) is an American academic, professor emeritus of

political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Sargent's main academic interests are in

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and

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. He is one of the world's foremost scholars on utopian studies, founding editor of ''

Utopian Studies ''Utopian Studies'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes articles on utopias and utopianism. The journal is published twice a year by the Penn State University Press on behalf of the Society for Utopian Studies. The Editor is Nicol ...

,'' serving in that post for the journal's first fifteen years, and recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award from the

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. Sargent was educated as an undergraduate at

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and as a graduate student at the

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Career

Sargent taught in political science at the

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from 1965 until 2005, when he retired and was appointed professor emeritus. He also held visiting appointments at:

Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL), formally incorporated as Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, is a public research university and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It has six schools, 21 academic departm ...

;

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;

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; and the

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Selected bibliography

* Lyman Tower Sargent (1969) ''Contemporary Political Ideologies: A Comparative Analysis.'' Homewood, Illinois: Dorsey Press, 1969. 14th edition (2009) Belmont, California: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning. * Lyman Tower Sargent and Thomas A. Zant (1970) ''Techniques of Political Analysis: An Introduction.'' Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company. * Lyman Tower Sargent (1972) ''New Left Thought: An Introduction.'' Homewood, Illinois: Dorsey Press. * Lyman Tower Sargent (1979) ''British and American Utopian Literature 1516–1975: An Annotated Bibliography.'' Boston, Massachusetts: G. K. Hall. * Lyman Tower Sargent (1988) ''British and American Utopian Literature, 1516–1985: An Annotated, Chronological Bibliography.'' New York: Garland. * Lyman Tower Sargent (ed.) (1990) ''Contemporary Political Ideologies: A Reader.'' Pacific Grove, California: Brooks/Cole. * Lyman Tower Sargent (1994) "The Three Faces of Utopianism Revisited." ''Utopian Studies'' Vol. 5, No.1: 1–37. * Lyman Tower Sargent (ed.) (1995) '' Extremism in America: A Reader.'' New York: New York University Press. * Lyman Tower Sargent (ed.) (1997) ''Political Thought in the United States: A Documentary History.'' New York: New York University Press. * Lyman Tower Sargent and Gregory Claeys (eds) (1999) ''The Utopia Reader.'' New York: New York University Press; 2nd edn, 2017. * Lyman Tower Sargent, Roland Schaer and Gregory Claeys (eds) (2000) ''Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World.'' New York: The New York Public Library/Oxford University Press. * Lyman Tower Sargent and Lucy Sargisson (2004) ''Living in Utopia: Intentional Communities in New Zealand.'' Aldershot: Ashgate. * Lyman Tower Sargent (2010) ''Utopianism: A Very Short Introduction.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press. * Lyman Tower Sargent, Michael Freeden and Marc Stern (eds) ''The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press. * Lyman Tower Sargent (2016) ''Utopian Literature in English: An Annotated Bibliography from 1516 to the Present.'' State College, PA: Penn State Libraries Open Publishing. Openpublishing.psu.edu/utopia. doi:10.18113/P8WC77 * Lyman Tower Sargent (2017) ''Lyman Tower Sargent’s Bibliography f Secondary Literature'' Porto: Advanced Research in Utopian Studies://arus.letras.up.pt/

Honors

In 1997 Sargent was awarded the Distinguished Scholar Award by the North American

. The Award was subsequently renamed in his honor.

References

External links

Lyman Tower Sargent, in ''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction''.

Staff profiles at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. {{DEFAULTSORT:Sargent, Lyman 1940 births American expatriate academics Living people University of Missouri–St. Louis faculty Macalester College alumni University of Minnesota alumni American expatriates in the United Kingdom Utopian studies scholars